Trejkaz <trejkaz at trypticon.org> writes:
> On Sunday 31 December 2006 05:02, Jonathan Tron wrote:
>> 11 meters per second for an European Swallow :)
>> I read a website which estimated it to 9.9 metres per second (rounding it to
> 10 because there wasn't that much precision in the input numbers.)
>> That being said, I looked up swallow in Wikipedia and there is no such thing
> called a "European Swallow" in the first place. ;-)
Nah, strictly speaking they're barn swallows (analogous to house
martins and sand martins).
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